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Re: package for Email
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: package for Email |
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Wed, 18 Jan 2023 19:17:44 +0200 |
> From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 16:51:39 +0100
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> > 5. I want IMAP.
> > Do all of them provide IMAP? (does Rmail now provide IMAP)?
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> Gnus can do IMAP, mu4e does only maildirs and you need another tool like
> mbsync to synchronize your IMAP accounts to local maildirs. I think
> Rmail does just Rmail, a variant of the MBOX format, but I might be
> wrong.
Rmail uses movemail to get the email and save it as mbox file, so if
you have GNU Mailutils installed, movemail will get you email using
almost any protocol, and I think IMAP is one of the supported one.
But I don't use IMAP with Rmail, so I may be wrong here.